These reactors were shutdown because of irrational anti nuclear protests, not because they were unsafe.

Oh for the love of... give it a rest. The only reason nuclear is expensive is because of irrational fear mongering and uneducated politicians over burdening the industry with unnecessary regulations.

I hate to break it to ya, but we already have thousands of nukes. And commercial reactors are not used for breeding weapons grade material in any event.

Nuclear is far from unprofitable if you're talking about reactivating existing plants. The majority of the expense has already occurred. And god knows Germany is going to need the power with Russia diverting their NG to China in the next few years.

Germany's recent peak power production was around 650 TW but as of last year that was down to 500 TW. Coal and Lignite have always been "fillers" so it makes sense that such a steep reduction in power production would cut those dirty sources first.

The recent push to restart their nuclear reactors would put the final stake in the heart of coal.

> The challenge lies in recovery," Holley said. "It's like getting salt out of bread doughâ"we need to do a lot more research, development and policy to make the recovery of these critical minerals economically feasible."

Just because a mineral exists in tailings doesn't mean it's in any way economically reasonable to recover it. This is a geologist pointing out that research needs to be done to make these recovery processes more efficient, and he's right. But the headline is all wrong.

England is 150 miles across at it's smallest (and closer to 400 miles at it's longest). Most deep water is very far from the coast.

And the water table itself can be anywhere from 6 feet to 200 feet, which honestly isn't that deep.

Well since the reservoirs are at 67% capacity, I'd say all they need is another good rainfall to add another 33%.

Water lost to the sea is generally industrial discharge that isn't being reprocessed rather than civilian usage. Leaking pipes are far more likely to contribute to ground water which remains fresh.

Reservoir capacity has dropped below these levels in the recent past and many times previously and recovered, there's no reason to believe it won't recover again. 70% capacity is not a red alert moment.

Any forecast involving dire predictions for a time the authors will likely be retired and unaccountable should be taken with more than a grain of salt. And this is a "think tank" report. There isn't a think tank in the world that isn't funded by people looking for a political outcome. And given an increasingly authoritarian UK government, handing over "crisis" control of the water supply would be a very bad thing indeed.

They're also talking about capacity dropping just below 70%, something that has happened several times before without coming even close to some catastrophic effect. The UK is an island nation - perhaps they should be funding desalination plants. And if overpopulation is putting too much strain on the water supply, maybe it's finally time to use a little restraint with mass immigration.

Lastly, no one "loses" water from leaky pipes - water is never destroyed it's only moved from one place to another. Leaky underground pipes just mean those trillion liters are entering the water table not vanishing never to be seen again.

I've always been curious as to the motivation of people like you who do not read english to understand the meaning being expressed but instead to seek out possible spelling or grammatical errors and point them out. The internet is filled with such mistakes but the vast number of people read it, possibly not even notice it, but regardless just keep reading on since the gist of the post is clearly understandable.

English is not computer code, it's a highly flexible communication method and as long as the meaning is understood, accuracy is unnecessary.

So tell me, what do you get out of it? Attention? A feeling of self righteousness? I'm genuinely curious.

You're implying that out of the hundreds they charge every month, only a tiny pittance, amounting to just over $12 a month, accounts for the actual equivalent production of power that they are taking from you? That everything else is infrastructure?

No, just no.

What is really being argued for here is the right of the family to bury they're loved ones with dignity and about the rights of the Estate, not the dead.

The dead don't care if you resurrect a low fidelity simulacrum of them, they're dead. But the pain such a recreation could cause the family - that's the crime that needs to be protected against. They should have some control over this being allowed.

I also suspect this about setting a legal foundation for preventing 3rd parties from recreating public figures for reasons of profit or power. We already grant most copyright as "Author's life + 70 years" - perhaps we should apply this same standard to the dead.

The power companies are clearly profiting from that - they are charging for more for what they take. Instead, they should be giving homeowners full credit on their bill at the same rate as they themselves charge. The homeowner is the one who invested in that infrastructure, NOT the power company.

The power requirements of AI and the upcoming infrastructure demands of EV's are just two examples of what solar and wind will never be able to cover. Unless the plan is to deforest the EU and carpet it with solar panels and wind turbines and continue with reliance on Russian NG, we need to start building nuclear. It's clean, safe, and reliable power. Modern designs can have a plant up and running in 5 years if you remove the antiquated regulations from the age when people had more fear than common sense.

Well the plague is bacterial, not viral, and even the WHO says you shouldn't get the oddball vaccine that was developed for it. Infection is easily treated with common antibiotics.

You also usually don't contract it unless you live in squalor or come in contact with infected animals. And the only way you die from it is if you didn't seek treatment and/or you had another serious ailment and this pushed you over the edge.

Prairie dogs out in Colorado are well known to be plague carriers, the disease never went away, we just know how to cure it now.